Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I propose we do this:
- Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as
part of the GHC build system. Rather than generating a Makefile
complete with build rules, we generate a Makefile that just
has the package-specific metadata (list of modules, etc.), and put
the code to actually build the package in the GHC build system.
Do you see this as the long-term, final solution? Or would the plan be
to let Cabal do the building again once it has learnt how to do its own
dependency analysis and call "ghc -c" on individual modules?
Right, it sounds like Cabal's long-term strategy is to provide an
extensible make DSL, which would address most of the complaints about the
current system. Migrating to that in due course should be our long-term plan.
Cheers,
Simon
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